Missing API: Serverside DSResponse constructor / setter with DataSource as String

[Blama]

Hi Isomorphic,

I'm transitioning existing 5.1p server code that was used from the client to work from server/servlet use as well, making it not depend on a RPCManager-instance presence.

This works well so far, but now I'm at a position where I need to fake a DSResponse in order not execute an expansive statement.
Before I used this in a method returning a DSResponse:

fetchResponse = new DSResponse(rpcManager.getDataSource(dataSource.getValue()), BaseResponse.STATUS_SUCCESS);
...
...
return fetchResponse;

But now I don't have rpcManager.

Can I do this?

DataSource tempDS = DataSourceManager.get(dataSource.getValue());
fetchResponse = new DSResponse(tempDS, BaseResponse.STATUS_SUCCESS);
DataSourceManager.free(tempDS);
...
...
return fetchResponse;

Even if this is valid usage, a String-constructor for DSResponse (like for DSRequest) would be the cleaner solution IMHO.
What is your suggestion here?

Thank you & Best regards
Blama

[Isomorphic]

Because you don't have an RPCManager, we can't offer a String-based constructor since there is no way for the DSRequest to know when to free the DataSource - you need to do so.

[Blama]

Hi Isomorphic,

are you also talking about DSResponse (and not DSRequest)?
I want to fake a response, no DataSource/DB action involved. The object should just be used to be returned to the client. Perhaps I'm not getting the bigger picture here, but I think that this does not involve getting and freeing a DataSource-instance, does it?

Best regards
Blama

[Isomorphic]

It does. DSResponse uses DataSources for multiple different reasons, including figuring out how data is to be serialized.

[Blama]

OK, that's the bigger picture then. Thanks for explaining.

Is the code I showed in #1 OK? Get a DataSource, fake my DSResponse, return the DataSource and then continue working with the DSResponse object?

[Isomorphic]

You can't free it that soon, you need to free it once you've completed working with the DSResponse.